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I remember a great lighted/neon version of Reddy Kilowatt in the late 60’s and early 70s on Hillborough Street in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was very near the campus of NCSU and I assume was owned by Carolina Power and Light. I have no idea what happened to it but I loved looking at it when I was a kid headed to my grandmother’s house.

I am the only person that I know who has a Reddy Kilowatt tattoo. I am a retired power lineman so I think I earned the right to get it!
The artist who did it said that he had never done a Reddy tattoo before mine and he took pictures of it to hang on the wall in his shop.

My mom worked for Carolina Power & Light in the 1950’s; I am assuming that they gave her earrings and a tack pen of Reddy Kilowatt. I am actually wearin the earrings today. You see my mom past away last month and I decided to wear something of hers each day for the next year.

I just bought a 100%electric car, a 2013 Ford Focus. However, there are no exterior clues or features that ‘advertise’ the fact that my car is electric! (Unlike the Leaf or the Volt.) Then I remembered the giant Reddy Kilowatt sign in my hometown, Raleigh, NC, with its electric-volt arms & legs. I plan to make a decal from a Reddy Kilowatt image, and slap it on my car! It will alert my fellow commuters that I’m not using carbon-based fuel, and it might even inspire nostalgia among some of them.

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